Re: ls man page/quoting_style

[Pádraig Brady]

On 24/10/17 08:52, Michael Stone wrote:
> There's no mention of the QUOTING_STYLE environment variable on the ls 
> man page or help output. What about changing 
> 
>       --quoting-style=WORD   use quoting style WORD for entry names:
>                                literal, locale, shell, shell-always,
>                                shell-escape, shell-escape-always, c, escape
> 
> to something like
> 
>       --quoting-style=WORD   use quoting style WORD for entry names:
>                                literal, locale, shell, shell-always,
>                                shell-escape, shell-escape-always, c, escape
>                                (overrides QUOTING_STYLE environment variable)
> 
> Which both hints that the environment knob exists and specifies their 
> precedence.

Good idea. The following is pushed in your name:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=9fa178f

cheers,
Pádraig